Lu Yin looked away. "If you don't want to tell me, then so be it. You may return."
"Thank you, Your Highness. Xiaoxiao will leave with you. Please take her to her father," Huo Xiaoling begged as she bowed deeply.
"Huo Xiaoxiao?
Your sister? "
Lu Yin asked.
She nodded.
"I understand. Someone will make the arrangements."
"Thank you, Your Highness. I'll take my leave." Huo Xiaoling bowed again, but just as she was about to leave, she thought of something and hesitated.
Lu Yin was confused. "Is there something else?"
Huo Xiaoling's eyes flashed, and she made up her mind. "Does Your Highness still remember Jenny Auna?"
Lu Yin's brows rose. "What is it?"
Huo Xiaoling replied, "She also wants to return to Zenyu Star, so I hope that Your Highness can grant her wish."
Lu Yin was confused. "You and her?"
"We've known each other since we were young, and we had some grudges when we were younger. Now, we've put everything aside. She wanted to find you herself, but she didn't."
Lu Yin nodded. "You may take her with you."
"Thank you, Your Highness," Huo Xiaoling replied before turning to leave.
Lu Yin watched her leave. In the blink of an eye, more than twenty years had passed.
Twenty years ago on Earth, when he had just stepped onto the path of cultivation, Huo Xiaoling, Jenny Auna, Silver, Xia Luo, Lulu Mavis, and the others were all in high spirits. Now, they all had different paths, and he wondered what would happen if they met again.
Perhaps they would die at the hands of the Eternals, or perhaps they would be transformed into Corpse Kings.
Lu Yin had no right to choose their paths for them. If they wanted to stay, then that was up to them. He didn't want to ask for the reason; everyone had their own choices.
Now that they parted, it might be difficult for them to meet again in this lifetime.
He had met too many people along the way, and he had also parted with too many people. Some of them he hadn't even had the chance to say goodbye to.
Qian Yan, the pirate who had been overseeing Chaosgod Mountain for him, was probably dead.
There was also An Shaohua, Lin Le, Xi Yue, and the others. He didn't know if they were dead or alive. He hadn't brought all of them with him, as he didn't have the ability to do so.
Fortunately, Wendy Yushan, Zhuo Daynight, Ku Wei, Ling Que, and the others.
When he thought of this, he looked at his cosmic ring. Yan 'er was there as well.
…
When the ancestral turtle entered the solar system.
Earth was in an uproar, and so were the other planets in the solar system that were inhabited by humans.
Everyone stared blankly at the gigantic Ancestral Turtle. They couldn't imagine that there was such a huge creature in the universe.
No matter how intense the war in the Innerverse was, Earth was completely unaware of it.
Their eyes were now fixed on the ancestral turtle, fearing that a sneeze from the turtle would blow the solar system apart.
Fortunately, Lu Yin had sent someone to contact Earth in advance. Otherwise, it wouldn't have just been an uproar; it would have been panic.
In the Outerverse, there were three drops of the liquid that could devour the Astral Source Universe, and one of them was in the Future Weave, where the Forgotten Ruins God had personally taken action.
There should have been one more drop in the central weaves, which was the black crystal that belonged to the Autumnfrost family. Fortunately, it had been destroyed, and the Outerverse had not devoured as much as the Neoverse had.
Even so, it was not easy to recover a stellar source in the Outerverse. In fact, it was extremely difficult.
The closer one got to the central region, the easier it was to recover Star Sources. However, the central region had long since been completely occupied by the Sixth Mainland.
Dominate.
The Ancestral Turtle stopped in the starry sky not too far away from Earth. The members of the Great Eastern Alliance stayed on the Ancestral Turtle and did not disturb Earth.
Lu Yin headed to Earth alone. There were also people he wanted to take with him, and that was Zhou Shan and the others.
"That scared me. I thought it was something big. Where did you find such a huge turtle?"
Zhou Shan exclaimed as he looked at the sky. Even though they were separated by a considerable distance, the Ancestral Turtle was still as dazzling as a star. It was also much larger than the other stars, just like the sun.
Lu Yin shrugged. "There are too many strange creatures in the universe."
"Uncle Lu!" Zhou Xixi was pleasantly surprised. She was very happy to see Lu Yin.
Lu Yin looked at her. "Why aren't you at the academy?"
Zhou Xixi smiled. "I came out to train. My mission was to experience Ironblood Weave for a month."
The current Ironblood Weave was different from the past. The Astral Beast Domain had been pushed back, and the war that had lasted for half a year had caused the Astral Beast Domain to suffer great losses. As a result, there were not many battles in Ironblood Weave.
If Lu Yin had gone to Ironblood Weave for the first time, he would not have been able to survive for even a day, let alone a month. It was not that he was not strong enough, but rather that he had been lucky.
In that kind of battlefield, luck played a huge role.
Back then, only Enlighters had the ability to protect themselves in Ironblood Weave, but in the recent war, even Envoys might not have been able to protect themselves.
"Don't go for now. Stay here," Lu Yin said.
Zhou Shan was puzzled.
Lu Yin told Zhou Shan about the Everlasting invasion. He was not sure when he would be leaving, so he wanted Zhou Shan and the others to prepare in advance.
Zhou Shan had not expected to hear such bad news. The entire Human Domain was in danger.
The Human Domain was an incomparably vast concept, and from what he knew, he would never be able to reach the Neoverse in his lifetime. However, such a vast Human Domain was about to fall.
He could not accept it.
"Uncle Lu, is this true?"
Zhou Xixi could not believe it. She knew more about the Human Domain than Zhou Shan did, and she could not believe that so many experts had failed to stop the Everlasting invasion.
Lu Yin looked at her. "Don't worry. Uncle can take you away and live somewhere new."
Zhou Xixi was nervous, but then she suddenly thought of something. "What about the mentors?
Astral-10's mentors?
Where are they?
I haven't been able to contact them for the past few days. "
"The Astral Combat Academy has also joined the battle. Although Astral-10 did not make it to the main battlefield, they should have encountered the Neohuman Alliance's Corpse King. Don't worry, they should be fine."
Zhou Shan's tone was gloomy. "Xixi, go out first. I have something to say to your Uncle Lu."
Zhou Xixi wanted to say something else, but Zhou Shan glared at her, so she left unwillingly.
Lu Yin was puzzled. "What is it?
You want to send Xixi away? "
Zhou Shan looked cautious. "See if there's anyone around. Use your ability to make sure that no one will hear you."
Lu Yin was even more puzzled. With Zhou Shan's status and cultivation, it was unlikely that he had something important to discuss with him. However, since Zhou Shan had said so, Lu Yin released his domain and confirmed that there was no one around. "You can speak now."
Zhou Shan raised his hand and activated his gadget, causing an image to appear in midair.
It was nighttime, and the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. This was a forest with floating viaducts and neon lights in the distance that illuminated the entire city.
The image zoomed in, but there was nothing out of the ordinary. Someone was probably filming something.
Suddenly, there was a strange noise in the originally peaceful forest, and the image froze.
Two figures appeared in the image, both of them motionless. Then, one of the figures fell to the ground and a ball of light appeared above his head.
Lu Yin's eyes widened. Undying Yushan?
He hadn't seen wrongly; that was a ball of spiritual force. The person who had absorbed it was either Undying Yushan or one of the people controlled by Undying Yushan, just like Kun Ze's Remnant.
In the image, the person who had absorbed the ball of spiritual force suddenly turned around and glared fiercely at Lu Yin and Zhou Shan. No, it was more accurate to say that he was staring at the person filming the scene. Then, the image disappeared and there was nothing left.
Lu Yin looked at Zhou Shan and waited for an explanation.
Zhou Shan answered solemnly, "That image wasn't filmed. It was frozen on the eyeball and I read it."
"What do you mean?"
Lu Yin didn't understand.
Zhou Shan sighed, "That image came from someone called Li Zhong. He's a Sentinel cultivator and also my disciple. He doesn't have any other abilities, but he has an innate gift called Image Freezing. He saw that image with his own eyes, and any image he sees will be frozen in his eyeball. It's because of this gift that I sent him to patrol Nanjing, but it ended up being his death sentence."
Lu Yin understood; another cultivator with an innate gift. It was a pity that it wasn't useful in battle, but even so, this person had still become Zhou Shan's disciple.
Who was Zhou Shan?
He was the most powerful person on Earth and was its window to the outside world. Because of his relationship with Lu Yin, even though his cultivation was weak, countless people wanted to be his disciple and get close to him. Even space-exploring cultivators were no exception.
Li Zhong had become his disciple because of his identity as an Earthling, but also because of his innate gift.
"Li Zhong died, and his corpse was discovered the next day. I immediately read his eyeball and found this image. It was the person in the image who killed Li Zhong, but that person thought that no one would know. He didn't expect Li Zhong to have such an innate gift," Zhou Shan said.
"From then on, I kept an eye on that person and didn't alert him. He's too strange."
Lu Yin was astonished, "You kept an eye on him?
He didn't discover you? "
Zhou Shan replied, "I'm not a greenhorn, so how could I possibly keep an eye on him? There are surveillance cameras everywhere on Earth, no matter where you are. Even if you enter the planet's core, you can still be monitored. I didn't specifically monitor him, but I did retrieve all the surveillance footage to search and organize everything related to him. Even if he escaped the surveillance cameras, I wouldn't look for him. After all, anyone who wants to leave Earth would have to report it.
As long as he's on Earth, I have ways to find him. However, I wouldn't go out of my way to look for him. It's just like watching a normal person. "
Lu Yin heaved a sigh of relief. This wasn't too bad; powerful cultivators were too sensitive to being watched. Even an Emissary wouldn't be able to keep an eye on Undying Yushan, let alone Zhou Shan. However, if he treated Undying Yushan like a normal person, then it wouldn't be a problem to retrieve the surveillance footage.
Zhou Shan continued, "The more I keep an eye on him, the stranger I find him. He constantly uses those balls of light to control others, as if he's looking for something. Besides him, there are many other people on Earth with unknown origins. I suspect that there are even people from the Neohuman Alliance among them. They're all looking for something."
Lu Yin was puzzled. Earth was just a very ordinary and small planet. If there was anything special about it, then it would be the Hidden Earth Organization. What could Undying Yushan be looking for on Earth?
"Besides these people, there are also problems among the people on Earth. There's an organization called the Hidden Earth Organization. You should know about it, right?" Zhou Shan looked at Lu Yin.
Lu Yin wasn't surprised that Zhou Shan knew about the Hidden Earth Organization. After all, he was the most powerful person on Earth.